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Long a Climate Straggler, Australia Advances a Major Bill to Cut Emissions
CANBERRA, Australia — After years of being denounced as a laggard on climate change, Australia shifted course on Thursday, with…
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Your Thursday Briefing
Good morning. We’re covering China’s live-fire drills near Taiwan and a looming Russian offensive in southern Ukraine. A news broadcast…
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Perils of Preaching Nationalism Play Out on Chinese Social Media
It doesn’t often happen that ordinary Chinese say publicly that they’re disappointed with their government. That they’re ashamed of their…
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Mines, Fires, Rockets: The Ravages of War Bedevil Ukraine’s Farmers
ZELENODILSK, Ukraine — Their uniforms are dusty jeans and tank-tops, and they drive tractors, not tanks, along the frontline in…
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More Than a Show: China’s Exercises Could Help It Practice Seizing Taiwan
A day after Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, visited Taiwan, celebrating it as a bulwark…
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The Anti-Abortion Movement Needs Minority Rule
One side effect of Roe v. Wade was that it allowed the anti-abortion movement to pretend to be on the…
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Is It All About ‘Fealty to Trump’s Delusions’? Three Writers Talk About Where the G.O.P. Is Headed
Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Rachel Bovard, the policy director at the Conservative Partnership…
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Gov. Hochul Defends Bail Reform as Mayor Adams Presses for Changes
Hours before Mayor Eric Adams held a news conference on Wednesday to argue that an “insane, broken system” allowed repeat…
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As China Plans Drills Circling Taiwan, U.S. Officials Fear a Squeeze Play
WASHINGTON — For years the deliberate “strategic ambiguity” in Washington’s China policy has left unclear how the United States would…
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Pelosi in Taiwan: Sharp Views All Around
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